The Loot.co.za affiliate program is a program whereby participating organisations can earn money by promoting Loot.co.za to visitors to their websites. This program is aimed at prominent websites and portals that need to earn cash for referrals rather than vouchers. Most people should use our referral program instead.

In order to become an affiliate, you first need to register as a customer on Loot.co.za, and then fill in the affiliate application online.

You will earn 5% of the value of the first order for each customer that you refer. Earnings for a referred customer become eligible for payment when that customer's first Loot.co.za order is completed. If that customer subsequently returns items on that order to Loot.co.za for credit, no referral fee will be payable for that customer.

Affiliate earnings are calculated and paid monthly as long as cumulative affiliate commission is greater than R100. The calculation of the amount will take into account orders that were completed in the previous month and will also include commission from previous months if the R100 payment threshold has not been met.

Links

Referrals are tracked using a "cookie" that is set when the person clicks on one of your specially formatted links. You will be given the format of your links when become an affiliate.

When one of your affiliate links is clicked, we will set a "cookie" on the web browser of the person who clicked the link. The result is that if the person uses that browser to register on Loot.co.za before the cookie expires, then you will be recorded as that person's referrer. The cookies that we set expire after a month. If the person already has one of our referral cookies set when your link is clicked, the existing cookie takes precedence.

Referrals are only recorded using the mechanism above. We cannot change or set a person's referrer once that person has registered on Loot.co.za.

Other

You may not make use of affiliate or referral links as part of a Loot.co.za funded campaign. For example, if we have opted to buy paid advertising on your web site, or if you are charging Loot.co.za for clicks or impressions, then the links that you use may not include your affiliate or referrer id.

The affiliate program is only applicable to owners of a their own website, for example you cannot apply for a link that is intended for a Facebook business page.

You may not include links on your website if your website contains material that is of an offensive, racist, or pornographic nature.

In connection with your participation in the program you will comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgements, decisions, and other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, including laws that govern marketing email.

If we change the affiliate fees, then the new fees will apply to all referrals that become eligible for payment from that point onward, even if the referred customer registered before the change.

Payment will only be processed to a South African bank account, we cannot process payment to any international banks.

Any product related data provided by Loot.co.za to you is to be used only on your website as specified on your affiliate application and approved by Loot.co.za and may only be used for the purpose of driving web traffic to Loot.co.za, and increasing the sales of Loot.co.za. This applies to all data provided by Loot.co.za in original form and also parts and modified versions thereof. Any page on your website that makes use of product information provided by Loot.co.za must have a clear and visible link to relevant product page or pages on the Loot.co.za website. Product data must be treated confidentially and may not be disseminated to third parties other than as outlined above.

Termination

Either Loot.co.za or you may close the affiliate account at any time and without notice. In the event of such termination, you agree to remove all links to Loot.co.za from your website and delete all product related data provided by Loot.co.za from your computers within 14 days of the closure of the affiliate account, including data in original form and also parts and modified versions thereof. No commissions accrue to closed accounts.

These affiliate program guidelines should be read in conjunction with the normal Loot.co.za Terms and Conditions of Use.